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Grattius was a Roman poet of the age of Augustus (63 BC – 14 AD). He was the author of a Cynegeticon, a poem on hunting, of which 541 hexameter lines remain, preserved in a manuscript of c. 800 AD.[1] He describes various kinds of game, methods of hunting, and the best breeds of horses and dogs, using a fairly regular hexameter to do so.[2]
Life
Grattius may have been a native of Falerii[3] but this assertion rests on the doubtful authority of a single lost manuscript, employed in an early printing. The only reference to him in any extant ancient writer is a passing reference in Ovid, Ex Ponto.[4]
Purpose
Grattius stresses the role of ratio (reason) in hunting, seeing it as a civilising endeavour in the tradition of Hercules, as opposed to indulgence in luxuria.[5]
See also
Notes
External links
- Cynegeticon, Latin text from J. Wight Duff and Arnold M. Duff, Loeb Classical Library Minor Latin Poets, vol. I; and English translation at LacusCurtius.
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